He also reveals his face. Give your thoughts. Do you agree with him or disagree. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuLggZ5jjEk
It is all a plot to get more people interested in illusion and dmagic nowadays.
I agree with him that revealing these illusions provides fun family entretainment value, but i beg to differ from when he says he wishes to rekindle magic.
I'd much rather it stayed underground, so it has a more magical or mysterious aura to it.
I agree that by revealing some age old illusions, it makes children feel like a part of the community. His idea that magicians should let go of old tired tricks and move forward is optimum. I support him on that.
He has a point at the end. It is forcing magicians to come up with better tricks and get rid of some of the oldies. I am reminded of tricks, especially the ones using trick decks like invisible deck, svengali, and blizzard.
Interesting.
come up with better tricks and get rid of some of the oldies. I am reminded of tricks, especially the ones using trick decks like invisible deck, svengali, and blizzard.
The highlighted word is one of the big problems I have with this sort of bollocks.
Magicians are being forced (?) to create new effects?
Please.
In one respect, forcing anyone to do anything is a pretty poor way of accomplishing something. Also it begs the question, just how arrogant an individual has to be to think that they are allowed to force anyone to do anything?
Secondly, pardon me if I'm wrong, but I didn't realise that magic had stagnated to such an extent that it took a guy who obviously spends more time on the surgeons table and the hairdresser than he does performing magic to revitalise it??
I must be living in some alternate reality where magic was doing fine and new effects were being created all the time before Vim Vimto found himself unable to sleep at night.
Pathetic.
If you wanna' do something then you should do it, but you should also stand up and be counted, not dribble out excuse after excuse that hold less water than a colander.
Effects of true genius that have stood the test of time.
They shouldn't be discounted and cast aside for all the world to laugh at by an girdle-wearing, staple-faced loser who looks like he contributes to about 30% of the effects of global warming.
It's not really the exposure that bugs me so much (even though I'm against that sort of thing as it smacks of childish pretentious behaviour to moi) but more the ridiculous reason behind it.
If you're gonna' expose magic then just do it and say you're doing it because you think it's clever and you're gonna' make shed loads of cash out of it.
If you're gonna' be an ass...call yourself an ass.
Rabid....or ass, depending on how you look at it.
their isnt actually any point in revealing magic on tv, not even for money - you wanna make money with magic on tv? do some stage illusions in the street, show people "big" magic for free.
Magicians are being forced (?) to create new effects?[/i]
Secondly, pardon me if I'm wrong, but I didn't realise that magic had stagnated to such an extent that it took a guy who obviously spends more time on the surgeons table and the hairdresser than he does performing magic to revitalise it??[/I]
If you wanna' do something then you should do it, but you should also stand up and be counted, not dribble out excuse after excuse that hold less water than a colander. [/I]
Effects of true genius that have stood the test of time.[/I]